Thinking about what Wolf 359 did to Sisko and Picard

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Thinking about what Wolf 359 did to Sisko and Picard
aaaand now I'm gonna cry again.
say what you will about the episode but you can't deny that so much love and respect was put into every aspect of it.
I'm reading the scriptwriters' guide for TOS and it's cracking me up in many places. It's so obvious that, from the very beginning, they were already aware of so many of the issues people complain about today.
First there's a multiple choice quiz, what's wrong with this scene?
Answer: C! Absolutely Kirk would not hug the yeoman at this point! That's unprofessional!
The Prime Directive gets explained. As I keep telling people, it's not never broken, it's just supposed to only be broken for very good reasons.
For people wondering how to write a stardate: you make up some numbers!
No saluting! Yes optimism!
There is so much "think of the budget" in here. Yes you can use the shuttle bay but only if it's relevant, we have to use miniatures. Yes you can have a space suit but please don't ask for zero gravity. And where aliens are concerned, you can have some makeup but please focus on the interior differences not just tentacles!
Honestly I think Spock is a better alien than, say, Jabba the Hutt, because as human as he looks, he's much more different on the inside. People like to dismiss Star Trek aliens as "forehead of the week" but it's kind of a stage shorthand for "we're about to discover a unique culture, these people are different from you in ways you might not expect."
And to wrap up:
pussy wetter than the lost city of atlanta
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This is a jar full of major characters
Actually it is a jar full of chocolate covered raisins on top of a dirty TV tray. But pretend the raisins are interesting and well rounded fictional characters with significant roles in their stories.
We’re sharing these raisins at a party for Western Storytelling, so we get out two bowls.
Then we start filling the bowls. And at first we only fill the one on the left.
This doesn’t last forever though. Eventually we do start putting raisins in the bowl on the right. But for every raisin we put in the bowl on the right, we just keep adding to the bowl on the left.
And the thing about these bowls is, they don’t ever reset. We don’t get to empty them and start over. While we might lose some raisins to lost records or the stories becoming unpopular, but we never get to just restart. So even when we start putting raisins in the bowl on the right, we’re still way behind from the bowl on the left.
And time goes on and the bowl on the left gets raisins much faster than the bowl on the right.
Until these are the bowls.
Now you get to move and distribute more raisins. You can add raisins or take away raisins entirely, or you can move them from one bowl to the other.
This is the bowl on the left. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?
You can’t tell for certain, can you? Adding or removing a raisin over here doesn’t seem to make much of a change to this bowl.
This is the bowl on the right. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?
When there are so few raisins to start, any change made is really easy to spot, and makes a really significant difference.
This is why it is bad, even despicable, to take a character who was originally a character of color and make them white. But why it can be positive to take a character who was originally white and make them a character of color.
The white characters bowl is already so full that any change in number is almost meaningless (and is bound to be undone in mere minutes anyway, with the amount of new story creation going on), while the characters of color bowl changes hugely with each addition or subtraction, and any subtraction is a major loss.
This is also something to take in consideration when creating new characters. When you create a white character you have already, by the context of the larger culture, created a character with at least one feature that is not going to make a difference to the narratives at large. But every time you create a new character of color, you are changing something in our world.
I mean, imagine your party guests arrive
Oh my god they are adorable!
And they see their bowls
But before you hand them out you look right into the little black girls’s eyes and take two of her seven raisins and put them in the little white girl’s bowl.
I think she’d be totally justified in crying or leaving and yelling at you. Because how could you do that to a little girl? You were already giving the white girl so much more, and her so little, why would you do that? How could you justify yourself?
But on the other hand if you took two raisins from the white girl’s bowl and moved them over to the black girl’s bowl and the white girl looked at her bowl still full to the brim and decided your moving those raisins was unfair and she stomped and cried and yelled, well then she is a spoiled and entitled brat.
And if you are adding new raisins, it seems more important to add them to the bowl on the right. I mean, even if we added the both bowls at the same speed from now on (and we don’t) it would still take a long time before the numbers got big enough to make the difference we’ve already established insignificant.
And that’s the difference between whitewashing POC characters and making previously white characters POC. And that’s why every time a character’s race is ambiguous and we make them white, we’ve lost an opportunity.
*goes off to eat her chocolate covered raisins, which are no longer metaphors just snacks*
I don't know how to explain it, but star trek is a genre as well as a franchise.
It's contained within the science fiction genre and broadly overlaps with space opera, but, not every space opera is also an example of the 'star trek' genre. Star Wars, for example, is not star trek. Foundation is not star trek. The Expanse is not star trek.
But Babylon 5? Babylon 5 is an example of the star trek genre. The Orville is definitely star trek. Farscape? Star trek. You don't even really need to go to space; I think both Sea Quest and Sliders count as star trek, and they're set underwater and in parallel universes, respectively. If it was genre tv in the 90s (and it's not Buffy), it's probably Star Trek.
Other media too. Galaxy Quest? Star trek (obviously). Mass Effect? Clearly star trek. The novel Redshirts by John Scalzi? Do I even need to say it?
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TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”
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so you’re telling me that “stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” would be like saying “wrote a G on his belt and called it gucci”
that’s…a pretty good analogy actually
US moron came to town
Hunting for some coochie
Wrote a G up on his belt
And this bitch called it Gucci
Seeing my notifications get flooded with this every July 4th is the only thing I respect about America
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the concept of jaywalking one of the craziest inventions to me. youre just making shit up
“no loitering” YOURE JUST MAKING SHIT UP
i rly think these cities and small towns that are just policed to hell and back on every infinitesimal public presence or activity explains why you get white ppl coming to like west asia or wherever else waxing poetic about how busy and eclectic and chaotic the streets are. this is normal. “loitering” being a punishable offense is not fucking normal
when i first moved to canada and realized you couldnt have a fucking beer in the park i knew this place was a freakshow
OK, so jaywalking was literally made up and lobbied for by the American automotive industry because when cars debuted they killed a lot of pedestrians and the industry really wanted to make it the fault of the victims in order to exculpate themselves. Loitering, meanwhile, is an outgrowth of Jim Crow laws.
Racism and capitalism are at the center of these laws and since America is the imperial core we have the most dramatic manifestations of it within the legal code.
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Hello, my name is Tofu and I'm a professional pixel artist. I have been supporting myself with freelance pixel art since 2020, when I was let go from my job during the pandemic.
My progress, from 2017 to 2024. IMO the only thing that really matters is time and effort, not some kind of natural talent for art.
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"this book has this trope", "this book has that trope"... what happened to SUMMARIES. what's the PLOT.
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